The Opening Run Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFGFHIGIJFKFK LMLMNLNL| The rain sodden grass in the ditches is dying | A |
| The berries are red to the crest of the thorn | B |
| Coronet deep where the beech leaves are lying | A |
| The hunters stand tense to the twang of the horn | B |
| Where rides are re filled with the green of the mosses | C |
| All foam flecked and fretful their long line is strung | D |
| You can see the white gleam as a starred forehead tosses | E |
| You can hear the low chink as a bit bar is flung | D |
| The world's full of music Hounds rustle the rover | F |
| Through brushwood and fern to a glad 'Gone away ' | G |
| With a 'Come along Pilot ' one spur touch and over | F |
| The huntsman is clear on his galloping grey | H |
| Before him the pack's running straight on the stubble | I |
| Toot toot too too too oot Tow row ow ow ow ' | G |
| The leaders are clambering up through the double | I |
| And glittering away on the brown of the plough | J |
| The front rank hands down have the big fence's measure | F |
| The faint hearts are craning to left and to right | K |
| The Master goes through with a crash on The Treasure | F |
| The grey takes the lot like a gull in his flight | K |
| There's a brown crumpled up lying still as a dead one | L |
| There 's a roan mare refusing as stubborn as sin | M |
| While the breaker flogs up on a green underbred one | L |
| And smashes the far away rail with a grin | M |
| The chase carries on over hilltop and hollow | N |
| The life of Old England the pluck and the fun | L |
| And who would ask more than a stiff line to follow | N |
| With hounds running hard in the Opening Run | L |
William Henry Ogilvie
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